I currently serve as the President of the MacinTech User Group in Denver, Colorado. My first encounter with a Macintosh was when I started working on spacecraft program in 1986 where there was one Macintosh in a sea of IBM PC’s. I quickly became an aficionado, translating a VAX program into a Mac program using MacFortran. I also serve as the Technical Director of an international engineering society, and have won kudos for my contributions to the society.